>... an area of about 11,000 hectares, around the size of 16 Manhattan blocks. As a side-side note I welcome the use of a new unit of measure, besides schoolbu

>... an area of about 11,000 hectares, around the size of 16 Manhattan blocks. As a side-side note I welcome the use of a new unit of measure, besides schoolbuses and football fields. But: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_block https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_block >The standard block in Manhattan is about 264 by 900 feet (80 m × 274 m). So a block is 80x274=21,920 sqm or around 2.2 hectares: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hectare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hectare Somthing is way off, another source talks of 114 hectares: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/bradfield-city-gets-1bn-for-western-sydney-airport-development/100215240 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/bradfield-city-gets-1... but, for the masses, it clears that "The size of the city once completed will be about 60 per cent of Sydney CBD".